From my own experience in diplomatic functions during the 1960s, I can affirm the motive for jokes within various diplomatic bodies prompted by the super-vigilance and reproaches of certain U.S. diplomats – not all of them, of course – provoked by seeing their Latin American colleagues chatting with Cubans.

Impeachment is serious, and the Congress Members who actually do it should treat it as such. And so, in many ways, should we.

Former US Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), a 2008 Presidential Candidate, spoke at this year’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, an annual function of the Democratic Party of Georgia.

For many years Kudlow served as chief economist for a number of Wall Street firms. Kudlow was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee.

It may be that the rush to deny Mumia Abu-Jamal a retrial and see him die in a gas chamber or by injection is such a well-oiled machine, that even proof or evidence itself won't slow down its campaign.

African American and immigrant security guards in San Francisco buildings march to pressure security companies and building owners into improving wages and conditions.

The announcement last Thursday by World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz that he would resign his post effective June 30 came as no surprise to anyone who has been following events surrounding the controversial neo-conservative during the past month or so.

The corporate media in the United States will not allow a real peace candidate any time or substantive or respectful coverage. It will slander and mock and, above all, ignore.

The Iraq war needs to end, says the overwhelming majority of Americans. And pressure is mounting on Congress and the White House to make it happen.

The term "backlash" came into popular usage in the late 1960s. It served as a mass media headline explanation for opposition and resistance to the Civil Rights movement generally and of course to Black militancy specifically, a sort of negation of the negation for those of us who are or were politically hip.

The Winograd committee of inquiry is not a part of the solution. It is a part of the problem. Now, after the first excitement caused by the publication of the partial report has died down, it is possible to evaluate it. The conclusion is that it has done much more harm than good.

Of all the slogans that are used to stifle opposition to America's aggressive foreign policy, the most infamous is "Support Our Troops." At once after dispatching its massive force across the Atlantic, the American "public relations industry" threw this phrase into the public forum.

Venezuela's right-wing opposition parties, which turned out their supporters at the weekend to protest at the government decision not to renew the broadcast license of the RCTV network, claimed to be demonstrating in favor of media freedom.

The RSS has concluded that the recent rout of the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections was due to the fact that it was not aggressive enough with its Hindutva agenda. The message is clear.